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Klamath Water Users Ass'n v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
Petitioners lack standing to challenge a FERC decision to re-license a dam operator without binding it to the terms of its existing contract setting...

Meijer, Inc. v. Biovail Corp.

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated antitrust actions alleging that a drug manufacturer misused its patent to keep a generic equivalent to one of its drugs off the...

Prieto-Romero v. Clark

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
An alien whose removal order is administratively final, but whose removal is stayed pending the court of appeals' resolution of his petition for...

Metzler Inv. GMBH v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Education Law, Securities Law
In a putative federal securities fraud class action against an operator of private for-profit vocational colleges and officers pursuant to sections...

B & H Med., L.L.C. v. ABP Admin, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Sanctions
Upon consideration of the parties' submissions on the issue of sanctions to be imposed on plaintiffs for their frivolous appeal, the circuit court...

Clark v. Optical Coating Lab., Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Sanctions, Water Law
In a toxic tort action following a jury trial that resulted in mistrial, award of attorney's fees and sanctions to defendants is reversed where there...

Contino v. United States

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In proceedings arising from a denial of petitioner's 28 U.S.C. section 2255 motion to vacate his guilty plea and sentence, government's motion to...

Heaton v. Weitz Co., Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action alleging plaintiff was retaliated against by his employer in violation of Title VII, judgment and awards pursuant to a jury verdict in...

Howard v. Waide

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against several state correctional department employees alleging deliberate indifference in violation of his Eighth...

In re: Arch Wireless, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Remedies
In proceedings arising after a bankruptcy discharge, in which a creditor argued that it did not receive proper notice of Chapter 11 bankruptcy...